LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The payment of rents due to Natives for the last half-year will be mad® at New Plymouth this afternoon. As the result of • motor collision James Butler, farmer, Tariki, was admitted to the. New Plymouth hospital on Saturday suffering from head injuries. His condition last night was reported to be satisfactory.

A little excitement was caused at the East End bathing pool in the Henui River on Saturday when a small boy dived into water which he found, was too deep for him. As the pool was, however, only about five feet deep, the rescue in response to his distress signals was an easy matter.

“Rainbow at night is the shepherd s delight,” and the lovely arch that rose and descended over New Plymouth early last evening gave a double delight. Around the outside of the bright arch of the main rainbow was flung a second rainbow, of paler hues, but plainly to be seen.

A large number of children from Anglican. Sunday schools in New Plymouth attended at St. Mary’s Hall on Saturday night when, following the annual prize distribution to scholars of the main school and the disbursements of gifts, from a Christmas tree, a Nativity pageant was presented.

Satisfactory progress was being made last night by Leslie Morrison, a young man who was admitted to the New Plymouth. hospital on Friday afternoon suffering from concussion and cuts about his head and face. His motor-cycle had collided with a light delivery truck, at Smart Road corner on th® Waiwakaiho Flat.

Dairy factory payments by companies having their offices in New Plymouth/ for the November milk supply total £64,507 7s Bd. The payment is ou a basis of 9d to lOd for butter and 9jd to 10id for cheese. It is anticipated that there will be a sharp drop next month in order to make up for the losses on present shipments. Royal Oak suppliers received a final payment in connection with the previous season, bringing the total to approximately 11 Jd. There was a good attendance at the first official musical recital of the Taranaki Regimen tai-Municipal Band, under the conductorship of Mr. F. W. G. McLeod, at Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, last night. The programme covered, a wide range and included the following numbers: Overture, “The Bronze Horse,” (Auber), “Viennese Nights,” Handel’s “Largo,” “Pirates of Penzance,” the “Mad Major” march (Alford), ‘‘l’m Happy When I’m Hiking” (Roberts), “Who Is Sylvia?” (Schubert), with Mr. H. G. Kay in the solo trombone part, the “Vicar of .Bray,” with Mr. H. McEwen in the euphonium solo part, and a number of Christmas selections, including “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing” and ‘‘Come, All Ye Faithful.”

The sum of £34,750 has been spent in Napier so far in the relaying of 20 miles of sewers, mainly in Napier South and Port Ahuriri, "which were damaged by the earthquake. It is now over ten months since the earthquake and from within a few ;?eeks of February 3 men have been engaged lifting up the drains in the damaged areas and relaying them, iwork going on in about half-a-dozen places at the same time. However, the end of the undertaking is in sight and the borough engineers are now giving attention to the storm water drainage system, upon which not a great deal of work has yet been done. Driven in from the gulf by the strong northerly weather experienced for the past few days, thousands of jellyfish littered Auckland harbour on Friday, says the New Zealand Herald. As it was fiat calm, the jelly-fish at the surface were particularly noticeable, especially in the backwaters of the harbour. In the basin formed by the ferry wharves the jellyfish were massed in patches several feet in diameter. In size they ranged from a few inches to nearly a foot across. The ceaseless undulating motion of the jellyfish made an unusual sight, which fascinated thoSe who frequented the waterfront during the day.

The extreme course of endeavouring to swallow a certain paper was adopted by a man who was arrested by detectives in an Auckland suburban house on Friday. After the man was apprehended at the house where he was staying, he was taken by motor-car to the central police station. Detectives Moore and Hayes were about to take him inside the building when he suddenly slipped something into his mouth and started to chew vigorously. A shuffle ensued when the detectives tried to force his mouth open. Eventually the detectives opened the man’s mouth and took out a piece- of paper, which will be used as evidence, when he appears before the Court. An interesting souvenir of their tour through Great Britain, Ireland, Canada and the United States is possessed by the Misses E. and K. Morton, of Onehunga, who returned to Auckland on Friday. Prior to their departure the Mayor of Onehunga, Mr. E. Morton, their brother, gave them a letter of introduction, which they presented to the authorities at different cities during thentour. The letter now bears the civic seals and signatures of the Mayors of Suva, Honolulu, San Francisco, Vancouver, Chicago, New York, Montreal and Quebec, the signatures of the Lord Mayors of Londqn, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin, and the seals of the Governors of Hawaii and Pago Pago.

“One type of person in the community at present goes about saying that in these days, when many men need work, there should be a great reduction in the number of women employed in offices and businesses generally,” said Mr. A. 0. Wilkinson, president of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, at the prizegiving of a Christchurch school. “The Canterbury Chamber of Commerce is the only one in New Zealand which is privileged to have a woman member. , I do not for one moment subscribe to the opinion that there should be fewer women in business. The young ladies have adorned our offices, particularly since the war, and I hope they will stay in them. I would not like to go back to the pre-war masculine dullness of business.”

In the course of the levelling of & section at the corner of Bond and Wakefield streets, Wellington, a length of very old timber and concrete walling has been uncovered, and as the records of this piece of land, going back a good 40 years, contain no reference to a building having stood upon it, it is thought probable, says the Post, that the walling is part of the old seafront protection work, dating back to the time when the water lapped Lambton Quay and Willis Street. During building operations about the same loqality other lengths of old walling were uncovered, and a few weeks ago a closely built stone wall was found a foot or so below the surface when the ground was being prepared for the new length of roadway from Lambton Quay to Bowen Street. '

Two notices of motion having been received by the Taranaki Swimming Centre from the Hawera club concerning the centre championships, a general meeting of the centre has been called for to-morrow night.

“He who remains & student while engaged in business is always a better man than the one who thinks he has learne everything there is to know.—Mr. L. Schumer, president of the Austra as an Institute of Secretaries, at a iuncn given by tire Wellington branch.

That the dust raised by passing traffic imparted a taste to the beer that was not to patrons’ liking was a reason submitted by an hotel licensee in a letter to the Waimairi County Council, Canteibury, when he asked that the road m the vicinity be paved. It was decided to place, the paving of 13 chains of road on the estimates for next year.

On the ground that eight horse power cars were too low in power, thp Wellington City Council last week ageed not to license them as taxi-cabs. The ®bairman of the By-laws Committee pointed out that cars of that nature would tend to cut rates, and moreover, the council had certain responsibilities and could not have cars stuck up all over the town with very low horse power. In addition, they would be so cheap that they would be iu competition with the tramways.

‘‘The enterprise was more than justified quite apart from the point of view of cricket,” remarked Mr. A. !• Donnelly, chairman of directors,, at the meeting of shareholders of New Zealand Cricket, Limited, last week, when the company was wound up. “Had New Zealand been, forced to abandon the tour, England would have thought that the Dominion was down and out as a re sß*‘ of her misfortunes in Hawke’s Bay. The tour- was of inestimable value from th® national viewpoint.”

The chairman of the Waimairi County Council (Mr. *W. J. Walter) said last week that the Minister of Lands had stated that it was impossible to revalue the land this year. Mr. Walter said that under a sectipn of the Act. if each farmer were to make application and paid the necessary two guineas the department would have to revalue each property. A member: That’s where the catch is; the farmers have not got two guineas.

“This is the first meeting of shareholders of a company that has declared a dividend that I have had the good fortune to attend this year,” declared a shareholder at the winding-up. meeting of New Zealand Cricket, Limited, last week. He said that a good deal of persuasion had been necessary before he had taken up shares, and he wished that he could be persuaded 1 into some ■other of the rare concerns that showed a profit at the present time.

"The problem of the chronic offender has not been made easy during the year,” says the report of the Wellington Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society. “Never a worker, he has now a ready excuse at hand, and exploits it to its fullest extent. He is generally the most insistent applicant for a brand new suit •—the need may be obvious, but a day or two would see Ahe easily-acquired property hanging outside a second-hand dealer’s shop, and the proceeds spent bibulously. There are some few of these, however, who find a turning in a. very long lane and make good. The, society’s efforts are thus sown in hope.”

A happy wily of cementing the amalgamation of the* two New Plymouth bands was adopted on Saturday night when married members of the Taranaki Regimental and Municipal Band took their wives aind children and single members their friends to the Coronation Hall. The proceedings were opened by the Mayor (Air. H. V. S. .Griffiths), whose informal talk to the children was followed by remarks of a similar nature by Major F. S. Varnhani (representing the Regiment) and by Mr. F. Amopre (chairman of the combined bands committee. Santa Claus then denuded a Christmas tree of its gifts for the sake of 60 or 70 children. Supper was provided and a bag of sweets given to each child. f

A letter has just been received by a Palmerston North resident from a New Yoyk company, whose operations are world wide. The writer, a responsible officer of the company, is somewhat astray in his geography for he addressed the letter to “Palmerston North, New Zealand, Australia.” Obviously, says the Standard, he is under the impression that New Zealand is a part of Australia. The misapprehension is, no doubt, due to the use of the word. “Australasia” In place of Australia and New Zealand when speaking or writing of the Commonwealth and Dominion.,,

Speaking to a Wellington Post reporter at the annual prize-giving of the Roseneath school, the headmaster stated that he did not consider the proficiency examination this year any harder than iu other years. “My pupils,” he said, “really did better than I anticipated, and I am well satisfied with the results. Although complaints have been, made about the hardness of the examination the only difficulty I could see was with the arithmetic paper, Hit on the whole I cannot say that it was any harder than last year.” Ladies White Cotton Vests, fine ribbed, no sleeves, at 10|d each. Wonderful values in Children’.s Socks for summer wear, at 1/6. Lace and White Cotton Children’s Sox at 6d pair. Pure Linen Tea Towelling, closely woven, and very absorbent, at 10}d yard. Selwyn • Silk Hose, mock fashioned, a beautiful stacking, at 2/11. .The Hustlers, Devon St.* Lissaman’s Mammitis Paint. Our numerous repeat orders show that our mammitie paint is very satisfactory. Try a bottle, 5/6. Send to S. Lissaman, Box 63A, Kaponga, or at all stores.*

Santa Claus to the older people is perhaps getting a little out of date. But this year let McGruer’s, Central Devon Street, be your Santa Claus. See our aeroplane and turntable competition. Prizes valued at £5, £3 and £2. See advertisement and windows.*

As every day this week will be tremendously busy at the Melbourne Ltd.’s grand Xmas Fair now running, the Management respectfully requests shoppers to make their purchases as early in the day as possible in order to get better service from the assistants.

Readere’ attention is directed to an advertisement in this issue by Miles J. Cassidy, Hotel-Keeper, Tariki, announcing his special price-list for Xmas hampers.*